Proactive Coaching in General Surgery Internship: Incorporating Well-being Practices into Resident Professional Life.

Objective: Coaching can provide learners with space to reflect on their performance while ensuring well-being and encouraging professional achievement and personal satisfaction outside of traditional mentorship and teaching models. We hypothesized that a proactive coaching program for general surgery interns coupled with individualized learning plans would help build foundational skills necessary for residency success and facilitate the incorporation of well-being practices into resident professional life. Here, we present the development, implementation, and outcomes of a novel well-being coaching program for surgical interns.

American Association for Women in Radiology.

For the past 40 years the American Association for Women in Radiology (AAWR) has continued to support efforts to achieve its founding goals of improving the visibility of women in radiology, advancing the professional and academic standing of women in radiology, and identifying and addressing issues faced by women in radiology. In the past 5 years, the AAWR has made great strides to support women in radiology through amplifying the voices of women heard at the American College of Radiology (ACR) Annual Meeting, initiating the AAWR Research & Education Capital Campaign, establishing the fellows of the AAWR, and advocating for practicing radiologists and trainee parental leave. The many accomplishments of the AAWR over the past 40 years and the committed future work of the AAWR ensure the voices of women in radiology are heard and the needs of women in radiology are recognized.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on family medicine residency training.

Background: Family physicians have played a unique clinical role during the COVID-19 pandemic. We hypothesized that the pandemic would be associated with significant deleterious effects on clinical activity, educational training, personal safety and well-being.

Objective: We conducted a national survey to obtain preliminary data that would assist in future targeted data collection and subsequent evaluation of the impact of the pandemic on family medicine residents and teaching faculty.

The Evolution of Resident Remedial Teaching at One Institution.

Residency program directors and teaching faculty invest an enormous amount of time, energy, and resources in providing underperforming at-risk learners with remedial teaching. A remediation program was created and centralized at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in 2006 and 2012, respectively, that consolidated expertise in and resources for learner assessment and individualized teaching for struggling learners, particularly those placed on probation or receiving letters of warning (called focused review letters) from their residency programs. Since the implementation of the program, the authors have observed a decrease in the number of residents being placed on probation, and, of those on probation, more are graduating and obtaining board certification.